Brosnan bonds with Icon for 'Seraphim'
Former Bond to join Neeson in 'Falls'
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Pierce Brosnan will join Liam Neeson this fall in "Seraphim Falls," a period drama to be financed and produced by Icon.
David Von Ancken will direct a script he wrote with Abbey Everett Jaques.
"Seraphim Falls" is a psychological actioner that takes place at the end of the Civil War. While the country is putting down its guns, a colonel hunts down a man to settle a wartime grudge.
Davey produces with David Flynn.
The film, which starts shooting Oct. 17, marks the feature directing debut of Von Ancken. After drawing Hollywood's attention with the short film "Bullet in the Brain," he has directed episodes of such TV shows as "The Shield," "CSI: NY," "Cold Case" and "Without a Trace." Stan Wlodkowski will exec produce. John Toll is set to lense the pic.
Icon is in talks with domestic distributors, and Icon Entertainment Intl. is handling worldwide rights and will distribute through Icon Film Distribution in the U.K. and Australia.
Icon puts "Seraphim Falls" into production along with the Gibson-directed Mayan-language period pic "Apocalypto," which Disney will release domestically next summer.
Neeson, who is coming off "Batman Begins," "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Kinsey," takes the job while he waits to play Abraham Lincoln for his "Schindler's List" director Steven Spielberg in the film adaptation of the Doris Kearns Goodwin biography.
Brosnan, whose latest film "The Matador" has its gala premiere Thursday at the Toronto Film Festival, was expected to reprise his James Bond role until he was abruptly dropped by producers who have younger thesps in their crosshairs for "Casino Royale," which is slated to begin shooting early next year.
